Commission Considers Handing Billions to Global NGOs

A fierce debate is unfolding over whether taxpayers should fund foreign groups after U.S. cuts.
A fierce debate is unfolding over whether taxpayers should fund foreign groups after U.S. cuts.

The campaign to give billions of euros in public money to globalist NGOs—which exist to subvert national democracy, and which previously received U.S. funding until Donald Trump cut back USAID—is continuing apace.

Last week, the Polish EU Council presidency, headed by prime minister Donald Tusk, spoke to many EU diplomats at an event in Brussels, warning that the European Commission needs to make up for the lost USAID money before friendly NGOs and media groups are forced to cease operations.

Dutch law professor John Morijn is also quoted in Politico on Monday, saying that as part of Brussels’ ‘ReArm Europe’ plans, “to earmark 1-2% on defending democracy should be doable.” That presumably means up to €16 billion is being proposed for NGO funding, given Ursula von der Leyen has said she wants to mobilise around €800 billion for defence.

Elsewhere, Morijn urged member states to “ask the Commission to assess the USAID-withdrawal caused gap in NGO democracy funding.” Global strategist Christy Quirk added that the “clock is ticking.”

Hungarian lawmakers are among those hoping the clock carries on ticking. János Bóka, Budapest’s minister for EU affairs, late last month told the Commission’s new rule-of-law tsar, Michael McGrath, that Brussels “should only deal with matters within its competence,” adding:

Transparent financing of NGOs should be fully ensured—the European Commission should not fill in the gap left by USAID.

Slovakia has also taken a hard line on the role of NGOs in national politics, prompting liberal critics to attack lawmakers for alleged “Putin-style legislation.”

Meanwhile, MCC Brussels has already revealed that the EU has given money to NGOs to help spread the Commission’s political agenda across Europe.

Now, the Polish presidency hopes that its recent campaigning in Brussels will result in the conclusions of the next European Council gathering containing language on “defending democracy” with taxpayer money.

Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.